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Local Government Behavior and Property Right Formation in Rural China [PDF]

open access: yes
Secure land tenure is important to the development process, but China’s rural reforms have so far failed to provide farm households with this security.
Loren Brandt   +2 more
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Balancing Affordability and Opportunity: An Evaluation of Affordable Homeownership Programs With Long-Term Affordability Controls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Examines seven shared equity programs that allow low-income families to purchase homes at below-market prices with resale restrictions and their outcomes in terms of preserving affordability, personal wealth creation, security of tenure, and ...
Brett Theodos   +2 more
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Exploring the Governance–Disclosure Nexus: Board Structures and ESG Disclosures in South Africa

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance structures such as board composition and board functions influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting among listed South African firms. This study examines 90 public listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2022.
Henriette Elsabe Scholtz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China: Does Rural Land Still Matter?

open access: yesLand
The purpose of this study is to test the response of rural–urban migration to land endowment while recognizing the heterogeneity of land tenure security perceptions.
Huiguang Chen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investments in farm land in Northern Ethiopia: a household-level analysis of the roles of poverty, tenure security, and conservation

open access: yesJournal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2020
There is a long-standing debate on the relationship between land-related investments and tenure security and most studies in this sense fail to reach a concrete conclusion because of their focus on one side.
Metkel Aregay Gebreeyosus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Poverty, property rights and land management in Uganda [PDF]

open access: yes
This study investigates the impact of poverty, social capital and land tenure on the adoption of soil fertility management (SFM) and conservation technologies in Uganda.
Birungi, Patrick, Hassan, Rashid M.
core   +1 more source

Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Land Tenure Security and Home Maintenance: Evidence from Japan" [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper considers two land tenure modes. leasehold and freehold. and models housing maintenance incentives under land tenure security in Japan. Compared with freeholders, leaseholders are equally likely to remain in the premises, but spend less on ...
Hisaki Yamaga, Shinichiro Iwata
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AI‐Enabled Circular Business Model Transition for Mitigating Climate Change: A Natural Resource‐Based View Perspective on Business Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in achieving sustainability goals has garnered attention in academic literature. While AI has been argued to be crucial in addressing circularity challenges, organizations face challenges in configuring a business model.
Jian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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